Mikhail Nikolaevich Skulyari
Mikhail Nikolaevich Skulyari (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Скуляри; 26 June 1905 - 1985) was a Soviet artist. He was born in southern Russia. He was the grandson of . Until 1917 he lived in Simferopol. He studied art in Irkutsk under . Among his fellow students in Irkutsk were Minei Kuks and . He then graduated from the Academy of Arts (1926–30), where he studied with Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Arkady Rylov, and . He spent the Second World War in Dushanbe, Anzhero-Sudzhensk and Kolomna.[1] He was associated with the artists' union RABIS and with the Red Army medical museum.[2]
After 1946, he worked in the Leningrad Experimental Lithographic Workshop with a host of artists, among them Alexander Vedernikov, , , , , , , Anatoli Kaplan, Minei Kuks and .
He died in 1985. His work was exhibited at the State Russian Museum in 2005 to mark the centenary of his birth.[3] He was also shown in the Estorick Gallery in 2019 as part of an exhibition on the Leningrad lithographers.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Gallery — realization of pictures in St. Petersburg. Skulyari Mikhail Nikolaevich".
- ^ "Скуляри М.Н."
- ^ "Михаил Скуляри в Русском музее".
- ^ Streeting, Louisa (16 November 2019). "Russian artists capture everyday Soviet life – in pictures". The Guardian.
- Soviet artists
- 1905 births
- 1985 deaths